I'm starting to think this is more than just winds of change blowing... I think something siesmic is about to happen worldwide... (And I think it's a good thing) by 6ixStringJack

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I'm starting to think this is more than just winds of change blowing... I think something siesmic is about to happen worldwide... (And I think it's a good thing)

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Sunday, February 1, 2026 5:52 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

What is the purpose of your existence anymore even, dude?

Unless you plan to ever evolve out of your current form, that's the ONLY thing you should be worrying yourself with.

You've completely outlived your usefulness. All you are in 2026 is a liability for what little remains the Democratic Party.

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Sunday, February 1, 2026 8:11 PM

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What is the purpose of your existence anymore even, dude?

Unless you plan to ever evolve out of your current form, that's the ONLY thing you should be worrying yourself with.

You've completely outlived your usefulness. All you are in 2026 is a liability for what little remains the Democratic Party.

I've always wondered why Trumptards are Trump followers. Could it be his thievery?

Trump’s New Grift: A $10 Billion Demand for “Reputational Harm” After his Income Tax Avoidance Was Exposed. Seriously. A man is now serving a 5-year prison sentence for leaking Trump’s tax returns to the press in 2018, and he wasn’t even a federal employee; he worked for a contractor. But Trump still thinks his embarrassment when we learned he’s been a tax cheat most of his life is, Trump says, so severe that the American government must give him and his two oldest boys a massive pile of cash. This family never saw a grift it couldn’t embrace…

https://andrewtobias.com/sunday-tidbits/

The world record is $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won in California on Nov. 7, 2022 and Trump wants five times that solely because he hit a jackpot in a contest that selects the winner based on a 50/50 chance rather than the Lotto's 1 in 300,000,000 chance. That makes Trump the biggest winner in history, who took the least risk of losing.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, February 1, 2026 8:28 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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What is the purpose of your existence anymore even, dude?

Unless you plan to ever evolve out of your current form, that's the ONLY thing you should be worrying yourself with.

You've completely outlived your usefulness. All you are in 2026 is a liability for what little remains the Democratic Party.
I've always wondered

Liar.

"Wondering" is an activity your brain is completely incapable of.

All of your opinions are fed to you by people who's job it is to feed you your thoughts.

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Sunday, February 1, 2026 9:51 PM

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Liar.

"Wondering" is an activity your brain is completely incapable of.

All of your opinions are fed to you by people who's job it is to feed you your thoughts.

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Evangelical Trump Supporter Asks God To Give Her Strength To Integrate Pedophilia Into Her Traditional Christian Values

6ixStringJoker spends his life smoking, watching porn, worrying about his blood glucose, his basement flooding, and freezing to death in winter because he has no job and a limited supply of money and purpose in life. He is certain that only Trump can fix his life and that Democrats are destroying him, but he is actually destroying himself by wasting time on nostalgic longing for the return of old TV shows and movies from his youth.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, February 1, 2026 10:48 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

You're nothing but a piece of shit online bully who never got in a real fight and never got a good punch in the face.

Your personal attacks mean nothing to me. You are so far below me in every measurable aspect, that you're lucky you even get to interact with somebody on my level in any capacity.

You just keep doing exactly as you always have been doing, and I'll keep recording your daily failures and your ultimate downfall for you.

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Sunday, February 1, 2026 11:13 PM

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If you're still with Trump, you're as bad as he is:
Sexually molesting children.
Arresting journalists.
Seizing ballots.
Murdering protesters.
Detaining children.

It’s time to decide what your red line is.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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President Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington's Kennedy Center performing arts center. Trump's announcement on social media follows a wave of cancellations by leading performers and groups since the president ousted the previous leadership and added his name to the building. Trump made no mention in his post of the recent cancellations.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/01/nx-s1-5695832/kennedy-center-renovation
s-trump

Trump’s “justification” for closing performing art center? Not because artists refuse to perform there since renaming it after himself but because the building will be rebuilt to Trump’s specifications. Expect Trump’s name on every wall in gold.

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Monday, February 2, 2026 12:32 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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If you're still with Trump, you're as bad as he is:
Sexually molesting children.
Arresting journalists.
Seizing ballots.
Murdering protesters.
Detaining children.

It’s time to decide what your red line is.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

These are all nothing but a greatest hits of stupid things that terminally online stupid people think. You have never and would never be able to bring any specifics to the table proving any of those allegations as true. And any that you imagine that you have are just bullshit taken out of context, which has seen everything you've ever said here debunked countless times over and over again leaving a long trail of abandoned threads which you've run away from, never to post on again, until your media found another way to package up the same bullshit for you once again to fill your mind with more headlines and out-of-context soundbytes to further rot your brain and give you your little hate-filled daily dopamine fix.

The reason you're throwing a daily temper tantrum and name calling every day now is because you're mad that nobody is paying any mind to you and gives a single shit what you have to say about anything anymore. The more everybody gets to see you out on the streets and what you stand for, the harder everyone is digging in, and you've gone from an America that used to poll only in the high-30's but now polls at over 70% to remove ALL illegal aliens from our country in every poll out there except for the most far-left extremist polling firms who have been so wrong about election results over the last 12 years that it's amazing even a few of the exist anymore and haven't gone of business like the rest of them have.

America hates you, sure, but unlike you, we're just going to continue on and largely just pay you no mind anymore. And we know it just burns you up because that large emotional part of you that never got bitch-slapped out of you like it should have expects us to lower ourselves to your standard and join you out in the streets so we can all burn shit down together.

And that's not going to happen, baby girl.

All we're going to do is keep laughing you out of the room until you no longer have a voice.

Pat yourself on the back. You did all of this to yourself.

It's what you deserve for never once heeding my warnings and screaming words like Nazi at everyone who clearly isn't a Nazi, bringing up 3 or 4 dozen meaningless headlines per week to scream about every single day for the last 3 presidential cycles, and just generally being an annoyance to everyone around you 24/7/365.

You are worthless. You are nothing.

Those truths have always been self-evident to everyone but you.

But one way or another you'll eventually figure that out.

There just won't be anyone around you anymore who cares enough to even bother telling you "I told you so" by the time that you finally do.

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Monday, February 2, 2026 8:01 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Epstein survivor: “I was raped three times a day and I wasn’t the only girl. It was a conveyor belt of abuse.

https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/2017671632169447669#m

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Monday, February 2, 2026 8:25 AM

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You have never and would never be able to bring any specifics to the table proving any of those allegations as true.

6ix, Trump's decisions intentionally get people killed:

President Donald Trump said Sunday that if Iran does not make a deal regarding its nuclear program, "we'll find out” whether Iran’s supreme leader was correct to predict that a U.S. attack on the country would spark a regional war.

Asked by a reporter about Khamenei’s remarks, Trump said, “Of course he would say that.”

“But we have the biggest, most powerful ships in the world over there, very close, couple of days, and hopefully we’ll make a deal,” he continued. “We don’t make a deal, then we’ll find out whether or not he was right.”

In January, Trump told Politico that he believed it was “time to look for new leadership in Iran.” As protests escalated last month, Trump told Iranian protesters that “help is on its way,” urging them to continue protesting. Thousands of people have been killed in the protests, according to a rights group.

Also last week, Trump said that “a massive armada” was on its way to Iran.

“Like with Venezuela, it is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary,” he said in a post to Truth Social. “Hopefully Iran will quickly ‘Come to the Table’ and negotiate a fair and equitable deal — NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS — one that is good for all parties.”

Trump said the “armada” was a larger fleet than the one sent to Venezuela, referencing the operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro and bring him and his wife to the U.S. to face charges. Trump also referenced the June strikes in Iran, saying in the post that “the next attack will be far worse!”

More at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-u
s-attack-regional-war-khamenei-rcna256951

How many people has Trump's decisions killed? Google it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=How+many+people+has+Trump's+decisi
ons+killed

Estimating the number of deaths linked to policies and decisions made by Donald Trump, both during his first term (2017–2021) and his return to office (starting in 2025), is a subject of intense political and academic debate. Estimates vary wildly based on whether they include direct actions (like federal executions or immigration enforcement) or indirect effects (such as policy rollbacks on health and environment).

Based on reports and studies, here are the main areas often cited:

• COVID-19 Response: A 2021 Lancet Commission report argued that 40% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths in 2020 could have been avoided if the U.S. death rate had matched that of other G7 nations, translating to over 180,000 avoidable deaths.

• USAID Funding Cuts (2025): The abrupt shutting down of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs in early 2025 led to an estimated hundreds of thousands of deaths globally, with projections suggesting potential for millions of deaths by 2030.

• Environmental/Workplace Rollbacks: A 2021 Lancet report estimated that the rollbacks of environmental and workplace protections led to approximately 22,000 excess deaths in the U.S. in 2019 alone.

• Immigration and Border Enforcement (2025-Present): Following the return to office in 2025, reports indicate a significant rise in deaths linked to immigration detention (32 in 2025) and fatal shootings by federal immigration agents.

• Federal Executions: The Trump administration oversaw 13 federal executions between July 2020 and January 2021, an unprecedented number in modern American history, ending a 130-year precedent of pausing executions during a presidential transition.

• Military Actions: Research from 2017 indicated an increase in civilian casualties from drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia following a relaxation of rules in those areas.

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Monday, February 2, 2026 2:07 PM

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Pete Hegseth Delights in Violence

His first year at the Pentagon has been marked by uncomplicated celebrations of death.

By Missy Ryan | February 2, 2026, 7 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/02/hegseth-trump-mi
nnesota-ice-military/685848/

Even before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had declared Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist, Pete Hegseth was online trashing his home state. Hegseth, who grew up north of Minneapolis, took to social media in the hours after masked immigration agents shot the ICU nurse with a stark calculation: “ICE > MN.”

“We have your back 100%. You are SAVING the country,” the Pentagon chief told immigration agents in an X post. “Shame on the leadership of Minnesota—and the lunatics in the street.” Hegseth didn’t define the we. He and fellow Cabinet members? The 1.3 million service members he commands? The troops he put on standby for potential deployment to Minneapolis? He hasn’t said. But if there was any doubt about how Hegseth would wield military might if troops were sent to check unrest or dissent in U.S. cities, there’s your answer.

Hegseth, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a National Guardsman before becoming a Fox News weekend host, has repeatedly blamed “woke” and “weak” military leaders for imposing overly restrictive rules of engagement that, he believes, cost U.S. lives and prolonged America’s “forever” wars. Since taking office, Hegseth has been an ardent supporter of Donald Trump’s expanded use of troops in U.S. cities and his aggressive immigration operations. When federal immigration agents surged into Minneapolis, Hegseth put troops on prepare-to-deploy orders in North Carolina and Alaska. Trump has also threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow troops to conduct law-enforcement activities.

In standing with ICE’s hard-line tactics against the citizens of Minnesota, Hegseth not only overstepped his jurisdiction as secretary of defense (he prefers to be called the “secretary of war”); he gave a glimpse of the belligerent approach he might take were those troops to be opposed by citizen protesters such as Pretti and Renee Good. It is one thing to defend your troops as they face enemies abroad. It is quite another to suggest that troops—or other armed government forces—have a free hand to do whatever they want on America’s streets to American citizens.

Asked about Hegseth’s comments, Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said in an emailed statement that the secretary’s mission was to execute Trump’s orders and protect the United States: “We will do everything in our power to stop those who seek to harm Americans and the brave men and women defending our homeland.”

I’ve covered every secretary of defense since Bob Gates, who served George W. Bush and Barack Obama. No Pentagon chief then or since has embraced the jocular yet intimidating rhetoric that Hegseth has employed about the military’s use of violence. At times, uniformed leaders have spouted off in public. Jim Mattis, the retired Marine general whom Trump referred to as “Mad Dog,” made tough-guy quips about how “it’s fun to shoot some people” and the need to “have a plan to kill everyone you meet.” But Mattis turned out to be a check on—rather than an accelerant of—Trump’s most disruptive instincts. Pentagon leaders have almost always publicly couched the military’s use of violence in decorous euphemisms designed to show the solemnity of lethality. Insurgents are “eliminated” or “taken off the battlefield.” Public gloating, in an institution as storied and upright as the U.S. military, is viewed as unseemly.

Not so for Hegseth. His tone and vocabulary regarding the use of force is gleeful, juvenile, and crude. He has posted doctored children’s-book covers that show a turtle named Franklin hanging out of a helicopter, shooting at drug boats. He embraced a phrase that the White House is now touting as Trump’s doctrine for the use of force: fuck around and find out. And he has celebrated lethal strikes on suspected drug traffickers in small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. After the initial strike in September, he told reporters, “I’d say we smoked a drug boat and there’s 11 narco-terrorists at the bottom of the ocean—and when other people try to do that, they’re gonna meet the same fate.” In November, hours after The Washington Post reported that commanders had killed two survivors of that strike, Hegseth posted, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” Hegseth has denied any wrongdoing by the military and has not announced any internal investigations or reviews.

Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller and the president himself employ similar cruelty when discussing what they see as America’s urban pathologies (Trump has described an “invasion from within” and said U.S. cities should be used as “training grounds” for the military). But it’s unusual, to say the least, for someone who sits in the top office at the Pentagon, a department focused on conflict outside the U.S. In theory, Hegseth is supposed to be setting an example for the world’s most powerful military, responsible for a large nuclear arsenal and the life-and-death decisions of a massive global force.

Hegseth’s regular demonization of domestic opponents (the “lunatics” he referred to are the same American citizens the military is duty bound to protect) also gives a glimpse into how he would view the power dynamic were troops to be deployed domestically. (In contrast to Hegseth’s swagger, when Minnesota state leaders deployed the National Guard to assist local law enforcement this week, Guardsmen handed out coffee and doughnuts.)

Peter Feaver, an expert on civil-military relations at Duke University, told me that the top Pentagon officials responsible for the nation’s sons and daughters in service, and the weighty matters of war and peace, generally have tried to stay out of public political squabbles as much as possible. Hegseth, instead, “has adopted a messaging posture that breaks with that tradition, perhaps reflecting his own background as a partisan commentator on Fox News and thus his comfort with the hot takes and rapid-response mentality of that medium,” Feaver said. “Having the secretary be so prominent in partisan sparring can put pressure on the nonpartisan military, whose professional ethic requires them to stay out of the fray.”

Staying out of the fray is exactly what U.S. troops—National Guard and a small contingent of active-duty Marines—have done over the past year as the president and his allies deployed them to assist federal agents, fight crime, or respond to unrest in cities including Los Angeles, Memphis, and the nation’s capital. Military experts say that’s because military personnel have more extensive training and better discipline than ICE or Border Patrol agents.

But Hegseth’s firing of the top Army, Navy, and Air Force lawyers suggests a different potential problem in any further domestic deployments, Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel who is now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told me. Hegseth, who, before taking office, advocated for the lenient treatment of troops convicted of war crimes, might simply override the military-justice system if any violence occurs. “There’s always somebody who acts inappropriately, even criminally, in a moment of stress or frustration and needs to be held accountable,” Cancian said. “That will be a test.”

Hegseth’s attitude is rooted in his disillusionment and disappointment over his experience in Iraq, people who know him say. In his 2024 book, The War on Warriors, Hegseth boasted about instructing members of the platoon he led to disregard their rules of engagement, a shocking admission and one that now looks especially ominous should the Trump administration deploy troops in new ways within the United States.

Hegseth described his time in the 101st Airborne’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team—the camaraderie, stress, and euphoria of combat—as transformational. He emulated then-Colonel Michael Steele, a Black Hawk Down veteran and brigade commander who he felt was wrongly held responsible for attacks on civilians that occurred under his watch, one of the people who know Hegseth told me.

Those rules of engagement are handed down from commanders who are advised by military lawyers, called judge advocates general. Their aim is to ensure that operations comply with U.S and international law.

Hegseth has dismissed JAGs as “jagoffs” and complained that their decisions led to U.S. troops “fighting with one hand behind our back” in Iraq and Afghanistan. “When you send Americans to war, their mandate should be to lethally dominate the battlefield,” he wrote. “Our enemies should get bullets, not attorneys.”

Hegseth’s approach at the Pentagon has reflected those convictions. Since taking over a year ago, Hegseth has fired top generals and flag officers and vowed to empower the trigger-pullers. Speaking to senior uniformed leaders he summoned to a Marine base in Virginia last fall, Hegseth said the military would fight wars to win, not to defend, and would end “stupid” restrictions on the use of force. “We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country,” he told hundreds of officers. “No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement; just common sense, maximum lethality, and authority for warfighters.”

Hegseth has company among some other veterans of the post-9/11 wars in believing that restrictive rules of engagement led to the U.S. failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, because troops were prevented from killing more insurgents, Jason Dempsey, a former Army officer who served two years in Afghanistan, told me. Dempsey described Hegseth’s attitude this way: “There should be no standards on the battlefield because it’s all us versus them, black versus white, good versus evil, and there are no innocent or undecided people in between.”

The importance of projecting strength and toughness is a deeply held belief for Hegseth, one of the people who know him told me. At the same time, Hegseth takes his cues from Trump, whose support is key to him keeping his role. In recent days, the president has distanced himself from his subordinates’ hot-blooded response to Pretti’s death, and his “border czar” has promised to wind down the federal immigration surge in Minnesota. In this case, Hegseth may be out of step with what his boss now wants.

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Monday, February 2, 2026 2:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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You have never and would never be able to bring any specifics to the table proving any of those allegations as true.
6ix, Trump's decisions intentionally get people killed:

If you were President you'd have me executed today.

Who are you foolin', BootJack?

Nobody is listening to anything you have to say anymore.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 11:36 AM

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You have never and would never be able to bring any specifics to the table proving any of those allegations as true.
6ix, Trump's decisions intentionally get people killed:

If you were President you'd have me executed today.

Who are you foolin', BootJack?

Nobody is listening to anything you have to say anymore.

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6ix, you do realize you don't have to hear, see, understand, or give your consent to be tortured to death, right? The United States killed many people like you in the Confederacy without their permission. The same thing happened to the Germans and Japanese, if you recall. No permission, no understanding of why they were being burned to death in their own homes. Just do it and get a medal.

Trump will build a monument to Trump

February 2, 2026

President Trump says he wants the new triumphal arch he's commissioning as a gate to Washington, D.C., to be the "biggest one of all" in the world, even though the proposed site is situated along a flight path for nearby Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.

The design continues to be refined, and the president has said it will be larger than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which stands at 164 feet tall, according to a White House official. The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the president wants to build a 250-foot arch, aligning with the 250th anniversary of the country, which would dwarf even the tallest triumphal arch in the world, the 220-foot-tall Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City. For comparison, the Lincoln Memorial, which sits opposite the Memorial Bridge of the would-be arch site, is 99 feet tall.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-arch-dca-airport-flight-path/

The Trump Memorial will be taller than the tallest building in Baytown, where I live.
That building was called "The White House" before it was imploded in 2025:

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 1:34 PM

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An Abu Dhabi royal paid Trump, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

By Jonathan Chait | February 3, 2026, 12:03 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-spy-shiek-corruption-e
mirates/685859/

The royal family in Abu Dhabi had a problem. Their AI firm, G42, wanted American chips, but both the Biden administration and Republicans in Congress feared letting them have any out of concern that the chips would be transferred to China.

The family solved the problem last year, The Wall Street Journal has discovered, by using the simplest solution that businesses can now employ for a policy obstacle: They seem to have made a deal with the Trump family. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family sometimes called the “Spy Sheikh,” purchased a 49 percent share in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto firm, thus sending $187 million to Trump-family-controlled entities. That spring, the Trump administration reversed American policy and approved the AI-chip transfer.

A sitting U.S. president shouldn’t have a business partner. If he did, ideally, that partner would be a U.S. citizen and not an agent of a foreign government. But if the president is going to have a foreign operative as his business partner, ideally that partner would not have a nickname like the Spy Sheikh.

President Trump has generally managed to confine the proliferating conflicts between his business dealings and the public interest to second-tier news stories. Trump and his spokespeople have rarely had to even defend his choice to operate a global business empire that stands to profit from his decisions.

The Journal’s explosive report, which constitutes the first established instance of a foreign government official buying a large share of a Trump company after the 2024 election, has at least briefly forced the administration and the Trump family to explain themselves. The defenses put forth are not reassuring.

One defense, via World Liberty itself, is that the company need not follow any different ethical standards than other companies. David Wachsman, a spokesperson for the firm, told the Journal, “The idea that, when raising capital, a privately held American company should be held to some unique standard that no other similar company would be held is both ridiculous and un-American.”

The reason World Liberty might be held to a different standard than other firms is that World Liberty was founded by, among others, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Barron Trump, and “co-founder emeritus” Donald Trump during the home stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign.

A normal business can’t simply change government policy in order to enrich itself. Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust upon taking office to avoid the temptation to tilt the policy agenda in a pro-peanut direction. Other peanut farmers did not have to establish blind trusts in response to Carter’s election. That is the difference between a business owned by a sitting president and one that isn’t.

Wachsman also assured the Journal that Trump and Steve Witkoff, a World Liberty co-founder, “had no involvement in the deal and haven’t been involved in World Liberty since taking office,” as the paper paraphrased his answer. But because Trump’s sons can handle the firm’s business, and presumably have regular opportunities to communicate with their dad, that does essentially nothing to dispel the conflict of interest. All that needs to happen to create a corrupt nexus is for Trump to find out who is giving him money.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, appearing on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, offered two additional defenses that are even less convincing: “President Trump has been completely transparent when his family travels for business reasons. They don’t do so in secret. We don’t learn about it when we find a laptop a few years later. We learn about it when it’s happening.” Blanche elaborated: “The president is ethical. He talks more to the press. He says what’s happening more than any president in history. You have a question about it, you can ask him. He gaggled on the plane last night at midnight for, like, 20 minutes. Okay?”

To say that the president is taking money from interested parties while delivering favorable decisions out in the open is not much of a defense. The cliché “It’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up” presumes that you have enough shame to cover up your crime in the first place. Watergate would have gone differently, but still not well, if Richard Nixon had held a press conference in 1972 to announce that he was hiring a team of burglars to surveil his opponents.

But even that threadbare defense isn’t true. Abu Dhabi’s investment in Trump’s company, the apparent quid in the quid pro quo, was a secret for more than a year until the Journal ferreted it out. Having been caught red-handed, Trump is trying to pretend to have freely disclosed it.

It is true that Trump entertains a lot of questions from the press, to which he often replies by insulting the reporters who asked, lying, or changing the subject. That is transparent in one sense of the word (you can see right through him). But it is not transparent in the sense of voluntarily placing pertinent information in the public domain.

Blanche also insisted that Trump’s World Liberty dealings were not different from the business practices of his predecessor: “I love it when these papers talk about something being unprecedented or never happening before, as if the Biden family and the Biden administration didn’t do exactly the same thing, and they were just in office.”

This is another defense that is not true and wouldn’t go very far even if it were.

Joe Biden did not run a private business while in office. His son Hunter did get involved in international businesses, such as the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, whose interest in hiring him was almost certainly due to the belief that he could put in a friendly word with his father. That arrangement was sleazy enough. But selling the mere appearance of political clout—as vice president, Joe Biden did not deliver any policy favors for Burisma—was not nearly as unethical as Trump actually delivering for his partner.

The comic aspect of a Trump spokesperson pointing to the Biden administration as precedent is that Trump has repeatedly called his predecessor a crook. He has labeled Biden “Crooked Joe,” accused him of running a “crime family,” and described him as “the most corrupt president in American history—and that’s not even close.”

Now his administration says Trump is merely doing the same thing as the most corrupt president in American history. That would mean that Trump, by his own account, is tied for first place as the most corrupt president in history.

The most revealing—you might even say transparent—defense came from the White House spokesperson Anna Kelly. “President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public,” she told the Journal. “There are no conflicts of interest.”

This is a simple but fascinating statement. On one level, it’s just a lie: There are documented conflicts of interest between Trump’s businesses and his policy decisions.

On a deeper level, however, Kelly is asserting that the very idea of a conflict of interest does not apply to this administration. It is a dispute not over facts but over concepts. Trump is challenging the idea that a conflict between the president’s and the public’s interests is possible.

This belief follows more or less from every other decision Trump has made, which has collapsed the space between the president and the state. Trump can apparently give himself and his friends carte blanche to commit crimes, while deeming anybody who opposes him a criminal. He can turn the government into a propaganda arm, naming parts of it for himself and making the Army hold a parade on his birthday.

When his spokespeople claim there are no conflicts of interest, they are defining Trump’s actual theory of governing: L’état, c’est moi. (I myself am the nation.)

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 1:49 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

just lost 2 in Texas and Texas was supposed to be secure for the Republican stronghold vs Democrat

'Absolute collapse of MAGA' has left surprise state up for grabs: strategist
https://www.rawstory.com/florida-midterms/

Marjorie Taylor Greene says MAGA 'was all a lie'

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5718355-marjorie-taylor-gr
eene-trump-maga-lie/

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 5:13 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Texas is fine. Democrats win every Special Election. Republicans still haven't figured out how the Democrats cheat in them, but they will.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 6:44 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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You have never and would never be able to bring any specifics to the table proving any of those allegations as true.
6ix, Trump's decisions intentionally get people killed:

If you were President you'd have me executed today.

Who are you foolin', BootJack?

Nobody is listening to anything you have to say anymore.

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6ix, you do realize you don't have to hear, see, understand, or give your consent to be tortured to death, right?

Yeah.

The real question is, do YOU understand this?

I think you do, because I don't see you laughing and giving me the Secret Service's number when I show you all the stuff you've posted that I've archived anymore.

Be sure to say hi to Don Lemon for me when you finally figure it out and you're sitting where you belong.

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Sunday, February 8, 2026 5:08 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Kidnappings... the News Anchors mother kidnapped like they do Haiti, Arabia, Mexico, Somalia style...some say its not unlike the USA grabbing Maduro

but kidnappers want money?

KGUN9 of Tucson reports that the Nancy Guthrie ransom note demands $6 million be paid by 5 pm Monday and threatens Nancy's life if the deadline is missed
https://x.com/lookner/status/2020402851789566030

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